Opening the door, the space inside is very small, and there are a few empty water bottles scattered on the ground.
"Yazai!" I saw Douyazai on the ground at a glance. His forehead was covered with blood, his clothes were covered with sand and dirt, and he had passed out.
"do not move."
Suddenly, I felt someone pressing something on my back.
"Who!" I turned around to see.
"I told you not to move! If you move again I'll stab you to death!" Someone behind me suddenly strangled my neck and pressed a knife-like tool against my lower back.
"Tell me, what are you doing? Did Lao Jin send you here?" The voice of the man behind him became more and more excited, and there was a stinging pain. The sharp tip of the knife had already pierced my skin. I felt that if I said the wrong word, then
A knife will kill me.
"Don't be impulsive!" I said nervously: "I don't know Lao Jin. I'm from the research institute. I don't know who lives here. I came down here to save my colleague."
He glanced at the unconscious Dou Sprout, and said with suspicion in his tone, "Are you really not from the Jin Fenghuang sect? Research institute, what kind of research institute."
I said anxiously: "What about Golden Phoenix and Silver Phoenix? I don't know this person at all. We are from the Institute of Geography. My name is Xiang Yunfeng. We are here to interview a few tribes living in seclusion in the desert. It's all a misunderstanding. We are not familiar with you."
There’s no animosity.”
He frowned suspiciously and fell into deep thought. I was afraid of irritating him so much that he didn't dare to speak anymore. The two of us were so close, I could clearly hear his breathing, which was a little rapid.
He finally let go of the knife on my lower back, and I slowly turned my head, only then could I see the man's appearance clearly.
This man was in his thirties or forties. He was wearing dirty clothes and had a plastic bag wrapped around his head to block the sand. He had deep wrinkles on his forehead, and when he frowned, the wrinkles on his forehead knitted together.
At this time, the guide Lao Zhang's shout came from the entrance of the cave. He asked me loudly what was wrong, why he couldn't see where I was. "Uncle Zhang, I'm fine. I've found Ya Zai. I'm going to go up now," I said back to him.
After saying that, I raised my hands and said, "Brother, can I take my friend away without disturbing you."
The man gritted his teeth, suddenly pulled out a knife, and threatened me: "Do you have anything to eat?"
"Yes, yes," I took two steps back.
"You can help me send my friend up there. Our camel team has plenty of food."
"What's there to eat?" he asked.
I thought about it and said, "There are compressed biscuits, beef jerky, and some baked naan that I bought locally in Yinchuan."
He swallowed, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll help you get this guy up, and in exchange you have to leave me some food, otherwise I'll stab you two to death."
I immediately said it was no problem and I would explain it to the team after I got there.
Just like that, after we agreed on the terms, the man and I picked up the bean sprouts and walked out.
As soon as we came out, the people above were startled and shouted, "Who is that Yunfeng!"
I explained for a long time. I just said that I met this man down there and did not tell anyone about him threatening me with a knife.
Then, three times in total, they tied climbing ropes around our waists and pulled us up three times.
Bean Sprout hit his head when he fell. Fortunately, our camel team brought some hemostatic bandages. Lao Zhang poured two bottles of mineral water and wiped the blood off Bean Sprout's face.
The man looked at the mineral water flowing to the ground and swallowed several times.
Seeing this, I brought him a bottle of water and gave him some more from my backpack.
food.
The man took it and ate it immediately. The baked naan without water was very dry. He seemed to be very hungry. He downed half of the baked naan in a few mouthfuls. He might have choked. He quickly opened the mineral water bottle, and it made a squeaking sound.
I drank more than half of the bottle.
I patted his back for help and said, "Eat slowly. It's not enough. Don't choke."
After he finished eating, the guide Lao Zhang took the lead and asked, "What do you do and why did you hide the mold in the grave?"
The man spoke in Yinchuan local dialect, and Lao Zhang also talked to him in local dialect.
The local dialect of Yinchuan is a bit like Cantonese. He speaks so fast that I can't understand what they are saying. I was curious about why he was hiding in the sand cave, so I interrupted: "Can you speak Mandarin?"
The man glanced at me and then said: "I work as a digger. Half a year ago, my friends and I teamed up here to try our luck, but something happened."
He asked the leader for a bottle of water again and talked intermittently for more than half an hour before he explained the matter clearly. What he said was a bit bizarre, so I asked the guide Lao Zhang if what he said was true.
Lao Zhang nodded and said: "I guess this is true. He even knows Jin Fenghuang. Jin Fenghuang and Jin Leihuang are brothers. These two are very powerful businessmen in Yinchuan. They did business in Shanxi in the early years
The coal washing plant made a fortune. About seven or eight years ago, the price of Alxa agate suddenly started to rise sharply, one price per night. The two brothers sold the Shanxi coal washing plant and spent a huge sum of money to start involved in the Alxa agate industry. Until now
The Jin brothers have almost monopolized 70% of the agate ore in Alxa. No one knows how much money the Jin brothers have. Anyway, in Yinchuan, including several nearby cities, they all have a bit of face."
There is indeed a reason why this man is hiding in the desert.
It turns out that about half a year ago, they had a four-year-old A small team of four people was formed mainly to dig Alxa agate.
Around Alxa, the work of digging agate is called digging. All the local mines that have produced agate, regardless of their size, have owners. If you secretly go to other people's sites to dig agate mines, once you are caught, you will be beaten lightly.
If the meal is serious, there are examples of people being buried alive.
This man’s name is Aza, a native of Yinchuan. The agate mine they secretly mined belonged to the Jinfeng Huanghuang brothers. They were not caught at first, but they successfully dug out several bags of agate rough stones and sold them to middlemen, earning them tens of thousands of yuan.
money.
Later, the group accidentally dug up a piece of "blood agate" and the news spread. The Jin brothers immediately discovered the four of them. According to him, two of the other three people were buried alive by Boss Jin, and the rest
Like him, people hid and pretended to be missing, not daring to go home or show up in the local area.
I don't know what "blood agate" is. I have only heard that there is a kind of wine-red blood amber in amber. I asked this person what blood agate looked like.
The person said: "We were shocked when we dug it out. Generally, agate rough stones have skin. The yellow-skinned ones are called yellow-skin ores, and the red-skinned ones are called red-skin ores. Alxa agate is rich in color and unique in texture, and is comparable to jade stones.
Similarly, if you don’t cut the stone and peel it, you won’t be able to see the color and texture inside the agate.” “”
He raised his head and recalled: "That piece of ore has a skin as thin as paper and is dark red all over. When illuminated with a strong flashlight, it turns out to be red like blood. The pattern of the stone inside looks like a placenta."
"Is there such a thing?"
I was surprised. Because generally agate is translucent. Even if it is polished and designed into a finished product, it will not be fully transparent that can be penetrated by light. This is the characteristic of raw agate.
I asked him in a low voice: "What happened next, where did the blood agate you mentioned go?"